Trump Reportedly Ordered Michael Cohen to Lie to Congress Posted on January 18, 2019 Impeachment According to a bombshell new report by BuzzFeed News, President Trump personally ordered his former attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress about Trump’s efforts to pursue a real estate deal in Moscow. As background, throughout the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump denied any efforts to pursue deals in Russia. In 2017, Michael Cohen testified toRead More
Inspector General: GSA Ignored Constitutional Problems with Trump Hotel Lease Posted on January 16, 2019 (January 16, 2019) Impeachment The Office of Inspector General of the General Services Administration issued a scathing report on “Evaluation of GSA’s Management and Administration of the Old Post Office Building Lease.” As the Inspector General concludes, GSA lawyers essentially ignored a glaring constitutional problem with leasing this federally-owned building to the Trump Organization. As background, the GSA administersRead More
Ron Fein and Ben Clements Speak at the Boston #NotAbovetheLaw Rally Posted on November 9, 2018 (November 15, 2018) Impeachment On November 8, 2018, Free Speech For People Legal Director Ron Fein and Board Chair Ben Clements spoke at the Boston #NotAbovetheLaw rally regarding the importance of protecting the Mueller investigation and pursuing impeachment to challenge the President’s egregious violations of the Constitution and abuses of office. The #NotAbove theLaw rallies took place last nightRead More
No Supreme Court Confirmation Until Impeachment Hearings and Criminal Investigation Have Concluded Posted on June 28, 2018 (June 28, 2018) Impeachment We call upon the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to postpone the confirmation hearings for any potential nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court until both Congressional impeachment proceedings and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s criminal investigation have concluded. This is the first time in American history that a president’s campaign has been under criminal investigation for potentialRead More
New ground for impeachment hearings: cruel and unconstitutional imprisonment of children and their families Posted on June 22, 2018 (June 22, 2018) Impeachment We have added a new ground to our call for Congress to start hearings on whether to impeach President Trump: cruel and unconstitutional imprisonment of adults and children. Background As we noted in our statement earlier this week, under Trump’s dictate, several thousand children have been seized from their families—who were often told that theirRead More
Our Statement on President Trump’s Policy of Breaking Up Families and Imprisoning Children Posted on June 18, 2018 Impeachment We at Free Speech For People are disgusted by Donald Trump’s policy of breaking up families and imprisoning migrant children. Under Trump’s policy, children are seized from their families—who are often told that their children are just “bathing”—and warehoused in mass orphanages indefinitely while their parents are left unaware of their whereabouts. While there areRead More
The Hill: Trump’s ‘treason’ talk is unprecedented, un-American Posted on February 14, 2018 Democracy Amendments As a piece in The Hill today noted, President Trump recently suggested congressional Democrats were guilty of “treason” for failing to applaud his State of the Union speech. As he put it, “Can we call that treason? Why not?” Here’s why not: The Constitution specifically defines treason, and failing to applaud the president isn’t treason—not by a longRead More
Trump Officials Are Exploring Mass Arrests of US Mayors Posted on January 30, 2018 Impeachment Trump administration officials are openly floating the idea of mass arrests of mayors of sanctuary cities. Two different high-ranking officials discussed this on national television in January alone. On January 16, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen told the Senate Judiciary Committee that, at her department’s request, federal prosecutors are “reviewing what avenues might be available” to arrestRead More
On the anniversary of the Presidential Inauguration, we continue the campaign for an impeachment investigation of President Trump Posted on January 20, 2018 Impeachment On this day last year, Free Speech For People, with RootsAction, launched the campaign, Impeach Donald Trump Now, calling for an impeachment investigation to be launched by Congress into the violations of the Domestic and Foreign Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution by Donald Trump. Since the launch of the campaign, we have expanded theRead More
John Bonifaz on Democracy Now! “Constitutional Expert Says Move to Impeach Trump Can Proceed Without Derailing FBI’s Criminal Probe” Posted on December 1, 2017 (November 29, 2018) Impeachment Our Co-Founder and President John Bonifaz speaks with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! to discuss the latest impeachment campaign developments and why we must proceed alongside the FBI’s investigation.Read More